Neil Steinberg Quotes
Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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For me, it was very important to be part of a boxing film that actually explores the psychological aspects of the sport, more than just the physical aspects. I haven't seen boxing movies very often that really go so deep into the minds of the boxers. It really puts out how much it is about strategy and tactics and technique.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
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If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
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As Assistant Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a constant concern for me is having our veterans dragged into partisan politics.
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Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.
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I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!
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In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.
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The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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We are disappointed that the Court of Appeals has decided that, unlike every other client and attorney in this country, government attorneys and their clients do not enjoy the right to have confidential communications.
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That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
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Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?
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This could all end at any moment...Therefore, be self-controlled.
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Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.
